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Canberra
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Steve Keen | Canberra | Nov. 2009
Speaking at the Per Capita annual conference Policy Exchange 09, economist Steve Keen looks at the rising national debts in Australia and the United States, paying particular attention to their historical relationship with recessions, growth and unemployment. He suggests that the levels of debt in b... » play video
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Ross Garnaut | Canberra | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4The Great Crash of 2008 by eminent economist Ross Garnaut, with David Llewellyn-Smith, examines the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequently to the current global recession. It provides an integrated analysis of one of the major events of our ti... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4The Great Crash of 2008 by eminent economist Ross Garnaut, with David Llewellyn-Smith, examines the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequently to the current global recession. It provides an integrated analysis of one of the major events of our ti... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The Great Crash of 2008 by eminent economist Ross Garnaut, with David Llewellyn-Smith, examines the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequently to the current global recession. It provides an integrated analysis of one of the major events of our t... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The Great Crash of 2008 by eminent economist Ross Garnaut, with David Llewellyn-Smith, examines the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequently to the current global recession. It provides an integrated analysis of one of the major events of our t... » play video
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Mark O'Connor | Canberra | Jul. 2009
The findings of Overloading Australia, the first major study of Australia’s population debate in the 21st century, may surprise. Australia’s population (currently 21.5 million) is growing at 1.8% a year, far above the Asian region average of 1.1%, and almost off the First World scale (0.25% p.a.... » play video
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Steven Katz | Canberra | Mar. 2009
In the 2009 Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance, Steven Katz describes the features of medieval Christian antisemitism and the very different features of modern racial antisemitism, culminating in Nazi antisemitism. He concludes with an assessment on the connection between hi... » play video
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Marc Mangel | Canberra | Mar. 2009
According to Professor Marc Mangel, one of the great challenges of this century is to answer the question: How do we bring first class basic science to bear on important applied problems? In this fascinating talk, Professor Mangel addresses this and a series of sub-questions, including: How does the... » play video
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Linda Jaivin | Canberra | Mar. 2009
Linda Jaivin's new novel, A Most Immoral Woman focuses on an obsessive sexual relationship which great Australian overlander and China correspondent George Ernest Morrison had in 1904 with the much younger Mae Ruth Perkins, who was commonly described as an 'American nymphomaniac heiress'... » play video
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Emily Maguire | Canberra | Mar. 2009
In this talk (subtitled "When lived experience collides with the myth of a post-feminist world"), Emily Maguire (author, Princesses and Pornstars) looks at the role and status of feminism today; and how women born after 1970s successes of the women's liberation movements have come to rea... » play video
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